Name this car....

[hektor]

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Wilson,

As I mentioned it was forty years ago.  The mechanic who rebuilt the engine was an old man then and maybe had the skill to deal with hand scraping and white metal.  We all have memories of our most enjoyable and fun drives, and one of mine was in the Lagonda one January evening (high summer in Australia) along the coast of Port Phillip Bay from Portsea to Melbourne.  The roof was down, the moon shimmering on the bay and the road ideal.  All that was missing was Grace Kelly

Hector

Edited August 17, 2018 by hektor

[wlaidlaw]

My latin master at school had a Lagonda 3 litre Tickford coupé, which he had bought new in the 1950's . I don't think he could really afford to run it in later years and bought a Mini Cooper. On my last day at school, I and about 20 other sixth formers took it up to the school assembly hall on the first floor (very wide stairs) and put it up on the stage. As we had all left and were on our way home, by the time someone opened the stage curtains and discovered it, there was nothing that could be done to us. I never heard how they got it down. 

 

Wilson

[willeica]

Thanks Wilson. I had known about your family connection to a 250 GTO following on from some research which I did after I had obtained a copy of Keith Bluemel's book, on the model, which was published by the Porter Press a few years ago. 

 

Here is one which should be easy for you. It is a restored car.

 

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[wlaidlaw]

The radiator looks Riley-ish. 

[hektor]

Wasn't the restoration of the GTO reviewed in Octane?

[wlaidlaw]

Hector

 

Yes it was reviewed because such lengths were gone to to salvage and restore rather than replace the original body panels, materials and oily bits by Tim Samways. The only major item which could not be salvaged was the leather upholstery, which was just too thin, damaged and fragile to be salvageable but we all got wallets made out of the better bits. When the front body work was removed and all the mechanicals for restoration, they even found some small bits of fibreglass, presumably from the body of the milk truck it had hit in the 1962 Tour de France. 

 

That must have been quite a long time ago in Octane, as I seem to recall the work was all done in 2005/2006, as it was used for Tour Auto in 2007 and the Goodwood TT in that year as well, if not the year before as well (with Stirling Moss co-driving). 

 

Wilson

[willeica]

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The radiator looks Riley-ish. 

 

Not a Riley, but it is British.

 

William

[dkCambridgeshire]

1932 BSA … maybe a trike 

 

dunk 

Edited August 17, 2018 by dkCambridgeshire

[willeica]

1932 BSA … maybe a trike 

 

dunk 

 

Sorry Dunk, not BSA. This one has 4 wheels and a spare. The company that made it, had, however, also produced bicycles and motor cycles at one stage.

 

William

[stuny]

That makes me think Sunbeam, and then Triumph, but I do not know either of their cars from this era.

[wlaidlaw]

What about a Wolseley Hornet? However, I think Wolseley made sheep shearing equipment before cars not bicycles and motorbikes. The part of the Wolseley company that makes the sheep shearing and horse clippers is still going (I gave a new set of Wolseley Horse Clippers to my daughter last Xmas). I think it was sold by British Leyland to Lister Engines at one point. 

 

Wilson

[willeica]

Not a Wolseley or a Sunbeam or a Triumph. The car is from the late 1920s and the name of the car model (as opposed to the make) is one which we would more associate with today rather than the 1920s.

 

William

[wlaidlaw]

MG 18/80? 

[willeica]

MG 18/80? 

 

Not an MG. I will give you a clue that will probably give the game away. The make name is a double barrelled one. I also want the model name, of course.

 

William

[dkCambridgeshire]

The fender design appears to be Brough Superior and the m/c is currently back in production … but no idea which model car this could be.

 

EDIT: Can't be Brough Superior because the cars were 1930s models and this one is 1920s. 

 

dunk 

Edited August 17, 2018 by dkCambridgeshire

[wlaidlaw]

Aston Martin International? 

[wlaidlaw]

I have been doing a little research in some of my books and that mudguard with a central ridge appears again and again on British cars of the era, from the smaller manufacturers and small coachbuilders. I suspect it was a proprietary item from the likes of Bluemels, Fisher, Budd UK or Carbodies plus the many other pressed panel makers in the Coventry area, that were around at the time. Sadly many of them were bombed out during WW2 and as there was a lack of skilled workers and the requisite heavy presses to rebuild the plants, they went to the wall. What machinery was available, was allocated to the larger and more efficient plants, for aircraft and military vehicle production. 

 

Wilson

[willeica]

Here is a photo of the restored car from the rear. Remember the previous clues, British, double barrelled make name and a model name more in tune with the present than the 1920s.

 

I should also apologise to Dunk, as this car has two spare wheels. 

 

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[wlaidlaw]

Lea Francis Hyper? 

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[dkCambridgeshire]

You just beat me to it !

 

dunk